Cheapens the value of the belt more than handing a title shot to a guy with no Light Heavyweight credentials, coming off of a loss, whose most impressive win in the last 2 years is against Brian Stann?

Yeah, choosing not to fight on short notice cheapens the belt a lot more than treating it like the WWE Hardcore Championship title.

Or rather: Like a Pride FC fight. Who cares if you actually deserve the title shot?! Let's throw Zuluzinho in and watch Fedor murder him. Want some blood on the runway? Dos Caras Jr. vs Filippovic!

Level of sensible matchmaking: 1/100. Chance of somebody getting knocked the **** out in a comical way: 50000/100

I don't compete in mma, I'm a fan. I was psyched for the Hendo/Fedor fight, and even though I rooted for Fedor and he lost, I was thrilled it actually went off. Jones/Sonnen would have been very fun.

Jones was protecting his record, at the expense of the sport IMO. That **** was a major turnoff. Just on the chance of an upset, he ducked a title defense.

Surely the odds of Chael coming without a camp and upsetting him, were smaller than Hendo beating him up. IMO Chael would not have been his match, but seeing it, far exceeds some excuses and ducking, from supposedly the best guy at that weight (for me a fan).

The Boxerizing of mma will make it a worse sport. The whole sell of it's ok Zuffa owns about 400 of the best 450 mma fighters contracts was that we would get fights. Ducking, even last minute, cheapens the value of the belts. He needed to be more Gandalf, and less Gollum.

Do I need to get the thread where people were talking about how bullshit title fights, concerning unwarranted title shots, were cheapening the UFC Belts and turning it into the WWE?

So, 145 was "scrapped" and postponed for almost a month. Hmmm.....So what made 151 so special that it couldn't be postponed for the same amount of time? Why couldn't one of the other fights be moved up?

Let's be real you lost ALL MONEY, where as a crappy card would make some money. If Sonnen is such a huge draw, do what some of those other links said and get someone to fight him. There is your headliner.

As judoka_uk said, it was a "I'm taking my ball" because he is mad at one person and not thinking about anyone else. Like I said, there is more going on to this bullshit.

The source is a subscription based website quoted by multiple articles. So far, all but one of the articles I have read are being disingenuous. Yes, it appears to be true. No, they aren't telling the entire story.